To Train or Not to Train?

The Administration, backed by the Army &
Navy, last week put before the U.S. public its conviction that all
sound and able-bodied U.S. young men, in peace as well as in war, must
be trained to bear arms.

In a highceilinged, austerely white caucus room the House Select
Committee on Postwar Military Policy began hearings which might well
upset the U.S. tradition against peacetime conscription.

Expecting a crowd, tall, white-haired Committee Chairman Clifton
Alexander Woodrum, a shrewd Virginia Democrat who has wangled many a
military appropriation through the House, installed a public address...